State-of-the-Art Contractor: Tracking Costs

Three-quarters of the computerrelated
calls I receive are from people
looking for a simple, cheap estimating
system; the other 75% want an inexpensive,
easy-to-use application to do
job-costing. (My math isn't wrong —
half of the callers want both.) There
are plenty of the expensive, hardto-
learn variety available. But there
hasn't been an application that tackled
both estimating and job-costing
head on, while retaining the elegant
simplicity and low cost of a program
like, say, Quicken.
Until now, that is. Chris Berg of
Berg Mechanical Corp. has written a
program he calls Trackit that may be as
close as you are going to get to a lowcost
solution. Trackit estimates, schedules,
and tracks the costs of your jobs,
and